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Inaccurate monitoring of sensor data in the vCenter Server Hardware Status (2012998)
Symptoms
- Inaccurate or incorrect monitoring of sensor date is reported in the vCenter Server Hardware Status
- vCenter Server Hardware Status intermittently displays incorrect information
- Inaccurate alerts are generated in the vCenter Server Hardware Status tab
- Sensor data information available from the hardware vendors may be incorrectly displayed in the vCenter Server or vSphere Client connected to the ESX/ESXi host
Cause
After IPMI write operations, sfcbd returns incorrect data for a period of time (approximately between 30 seconds and 5 minutes).
Resolution
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